The Fish

Ritchie hasn't been great today.

We need to change something, that's for sure.

Brighton lead 1-0

Let it get a bit more stretched, then when their legs have gone bring on Shelvey and Gayle.

There's been a few times where he given the ball and gone for the return and it hasn't been as sharp or accurate as his and I can't wait to see what he'll be like when/if we bring in better players around him. Love to see him score soon like.

That pass from Bruno Almost as bad as Perez' shot. Perez or Perez's...

Tenner to SBR Foundation says that isn't the lowest we'll finish.

is it shite peandering to them, I said we're more likely to be bottom 7 than top 7 and I stick by that. 14th is bottom 7 and I reckon we're more likely to end up with around 42 points which would put us around 14th. You're just a little tinker.

It's coming like, this isn't the same as other games where we're letting them have possession in non-dangerous areas, they've had two or three really good opportunities.

Where've I said we're in a relegation battle like? You little tinker.

Aye, I haven't watched a single one of their games. Don't know if they've been on tv yet either. I'll go on RTG because: it's busy there's a few stories about their club at the minute like administration, league form etc. there's plenty of threads about Newcastle We have one thread about the mackems, I think NO is fairly similar, they not only have 300+ page threads about Benitez started in August, but have various threads about the "Mag at work", or one of our players, or the perceived pro-NUFC bias of the local media, and so on. That said, I don't read their fanzine, I don't follow their local journo's (as they do for Ryder, Douglas etc.) I don't watch their matches and what have you.

Some tory MPs would pay good money for that.

I would have driven down to Brighton to kiss Merino's foot had that gone in.

To be fair I reckon there'll be plenty of dickheads in every team's fanbase, dickhead Everton fans who think Liverpool are shit, Klopp is terrible and Coutinho is over rated. The trouble Sunderland have is that so many gauge their team's success and failure by comparing it to ours. Allardyce is widely lauded on Wearside, but I guarantee had we comfortably survived* he would be viewed much less favourably. He had much of the season and barely dragged them to safety, and has left them with a pretty shocking squad. It didn't really matter how they fared in the league as long as they beat us and when they had a manager who had them comfortably midtable they weren't happy because his record against us was poor. Flip that and while our support might enjoy their struggles, and will happily laud it over them, none of us were happy to be in a relegation fight even when we finished above them. That might be arrogance on our part, but I honestly don't think their ups and downs matter as much to us and ours do for them. We judge ourselves against clubs we think we can compete with, those teams may change given our situation, but it's more likely to be Spurs, Everton, and latterly Stoke, West Brom and Southampton, than it is Sunderland AFC. This season we'd be happy to finish 14th, regardless of where Sunderland finish or what league they're in. That we could treat the Championship as a fucking spa weekend, must absolutely kill them. *which I think we would have had Benitez come in earlier, or had we had someone better than McClaren for the majority of the season

Sheffield derby poised at Shef Wed 1-2 Shef Utd at half time. Hoping for ructions in the second half.

Colour me suspicious.

He'll be trying to but missing by some distance.

I think you can find it on KODI, but I'm not sure.

There's one on there who maintains that he'd still rather have Grayson than Benitez if it was a straight choice.

That's a classic clip to be fair.

I think you'll find that;

I'd be devastated if I was going with that as well to be fair. Nice that the lesbian aunt behind them has taken her nephews out to the game though.

They have some shite in their team, but so do 5 or 6 other teams at the bottom of that league. I'd enjoy a second relegation for them if for no other reason than it highlights what an excellent job Benitez did last season, and Hughton and Wagner. It's remarkable that their fans are deserting matchday given the consensus was that they were fiercely loyal despite years of shit. Turns out when the going really gets rough they sack it off. 18,000 under capacity , on average, after 5 home games according to transfermarkt.co.uk. Can only see that finding a plateau around 20-22k if things don't improve dramatically. Which will in turn impact their finances. No big tv deal, half empty stadium, finances fucked already, rumours of administration... Do they own their stadium? Their Academy of Light? How do they plug that money hole?

Did you convert her after?

Quality, congrats! Which matches?